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I ROTARY SHELF FOR OVENS.

Patented July 12,1881.

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ADDISON M. YOUNGS AND JOSIAH SMITH, OF SAG HARBOR, NEW YORK.

ROTARY SHEL SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed April To all whom tt may concern:

Be it known that we, ADDISON M. YOUNGS and JOSIAH SMITH, of Sag Harbor, in the county of Suffolk and State of New York, have invented a new Improvement in Rotary Shelves for Stove and Range Ovens, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Figure l is a sectional elevation of a part of our improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the lower shelf. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a part of the oven-bottom. Fig. 4 'is a sectional elevation of the same, taken through the line x 00, Fig. 3.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the insertion into stove and range ovens, and the removal therefrom, of articles to be baked, and also the convenient adjustment of the articles while in the oven.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

A represents a-stove or range oven, or other baking-oven, in the bottom B of which are formed recesses G to receive the rollers D The recesses O are made with a semi-spherical middle part, having semi-cylindrical grooves upon its opposite sides. The recesses O are so arranged that all their grooves may be radial. The rollers D are made with a spherical middle part, having gudgeons upon its opposite sides. The rollers D are made of such a size. that the shelf E, resting upon their spherical middle parts, will be raised about half an inch above the oven-bottom B. The recesses O are so formed that the spherical middle parts of the rollers D will not touch the walls of the recesses O, the said rollers being entirely supported by their gudgeons.

In the center of the oven-bottom B is formed a recess or socket, F, to receive a pivot, G, attached to the center of the lower shelf, E, so that the said shelf will be kept in place While being rotated. The shelf E is made circular, and has numerous small apertures, H, formed through it to allow the heat from the oven-bottom to have free access to the articles placed upon the said shelf E.

Around the edge of the shelf E is formed a narrow upwardly-projecting flange, I, to keep F FOR OVENS.

Patent No. 244,355, dated July 12, 1881.

16,1881. (NomodeL) off the said lower shelf, E. The legs J stand loose upon the shelf E, and their upper ends are rigidly attached to or. formed upon the said upper shelf, K. The upper shelf, K, has numerous small apertures, L, formed through it to allow the heated air to come in contact freely with the articles placed upon the said shelf K. Upon the flange I of the rotary shelf E are formed lugs, sockets, or apertures S, to receive the end of a poker or other implement, for convenience in rotating the said shelf.

The articles to be baked can be placed, some upon the lower shell-,E, and some upon the upper shelf, K or the articles can all be placed upon the lower shelf and moved to the upper shelf, should the tops of the said articles bake too slowly. In putting the article to be baked into the oven the first article is put upon the shelf E, and the said shelf is then turned a little to bring an empty part of the shelf opposite the oven-door, so that there need be no reaching into the oven to arrange the articles to be baked.

We do not claim, broadly, the combination of rotary shelves with ovens but,

Having. thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent I 1. A centrally-pivoted oven-shelf, in combination with balls provided with gudgeons journaled in recesses in the oven-bottom, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with an oven-bottom provided with recesses 0, having a semi-spherical middle part, and opposite semi-cylindrical grooves, of the balls D, each provided with opposite gudgeons, and the centrally-pivoted rotary shelf E, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the lower'rotary shelf, E, having flange I, of the upper perforated shelf, K, having legs J, substantially as herein shown and described, to receive the articles being baked when their tops are baking too slowly, as set forth.

ADDISON M. YOUNGS. JOSIAH SMITH.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. MEYER, WILLIAM GLAZIER. 

